Potlakaya perugu pachadi(Snake gourd yogurt chutney)

ingredients:


Potlakaya(Snake gourd)Medium size- 1(one packet frozen)

Perugu(yogurt) 2cups
Ginger 1/2 inch
Green chilli 3-4
Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil 3tsp
Urad dal(minapappu) 1/4tsp
mustard seeds(avaalu) 1/4tsp
cumin seeds(jeelakarra) 1/2ts
Hing(Inguva) Pinch
Curry leaves 10


Preparation:


1. Chop snakegourd into small pieces.
2. Heat 1tsp oil in a pan,add snake gourd pieces and cover it with a lid, Stir occasionally cook it on low flame. Fry until snake gourd becomes soft, remove from the pan keep aside.
3. Grind Green chilli and ginger with out adding water keep aside.
4. Heat oil in the pan add mustard seeds, cumin seeds let them crack,add urad dal(minapappu),red chilli,Curry leaves and fry. Now add Hing, green chilli-ginger paste, turmeric powder fry for few seconds. Add cooked Snkae gourd, salt keep it in low flame about 2minutes
5. Now add this mix to yogurt and mix well.
6. Serve with rice, chapathi or with any breakfast(Idly, Dosa, Rava dosa). 

sabudana khichdi(sago)

                                                                                                                                                               

ingredients: Sabudana 1cup(sago, saggu biyyam)) peanuts 2tbsp salt to taste Green chilli long sliced 3 onion chopped 1/4 cup Ginger finely chopped 1/4inch turmeric powder 1/2tsp cumin seeds 1/2tsp Mustard seeds 1/2tsp Curry leaves 10 oil 3tsp

            








Preparation:


Take sabudana, wash and soak in 1/2 cup water for 8 hours or over night.
Roast peanuts on medium heat and keep aside.
Take a pan heat oil, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds after seeds crack, add chopped onion stir for few seconds.
After frying onion add green chilies,finely chopped ginger, curry leaves stir for few seconds.
Next add sabudana fry for 2 minutes, add salt and turmeric powder, roasted peanuts stir well.
Stir fry continuously on medium flame until sabudana turns translucence.This is should take 6minutes
Stir gently to avoid stickiness of sabudana.
Serve hot....
note:If you want then add 1tsp lime juice, and cilantro.

Sabudana vada

ingredients: Sabudana(saggubiyyam,sago,tapioca) 1cup Large Potatoes 2 Rice flour 1cup Salt to taste Green chilli 3 Onion chopped 1cup Ginger finely chopped 1inch Curry leaves 10 oil for deep frying

Preparation:


*Wash sabudana and soak for 3-4 hours, drain the water, keep aside.
*Peel the boiled potatoes, mash them.
*Take a mixing bowl, mix sabudana, mashed potatoes,rice flour,salt, green chilli, onion, ginger,curry leaves, mix well to prepare the dough.
*Make balls of this dough and make flat patties with these balls(2inch diameter).

*Heat oil in the pan for deep frying, oil get heated fry the patties in medium high heat, fry on both sides till golden yellow color, take vada's out and put on oil absorbent paper.
*Serve hot with coconut chutney,  curry leaves chutney powder.

Cranberry muffins

ingredients: All purpose flour 2cups 3/4 cup sugar(less sweet then 2/3 cup) Chopped cranberry 1cup Baking powder 2tsp 1/3tsp salt vanilla essence 1/2tsp One egg (beaten) Butter 1/3 stick melted Milk 2/3 cup(i used 2%fat milk) Grated Orange peel 1tsp

Preparation:

*Preheat oven to 400°

*Take a muffin pan and place paper liners in muffin cups.

*Take a Medium bowl , combine all purpose flour, salt, sugar and baking powder, Stir well.

*Add cranberries, grated orange peel to the mixture,stir well.

*Add milk, melted butter, egg, vanilla extract and beat nicely with whisk in another bowl.

*Now add the flour mixture and mix gently, do not overmix.

                       
*Then spoon the batter in to the muffin cups.

*Bake for 18-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center it come clean.

*Cool the pan  for 2 minutes, remove muffins and palce it in a wire rack, cool completely.

Shrimp Fry

ingredients: Shrimp : 1/2lb Salt : 1/2tsp Chilli powder : 1/2tsp Garam Masala: 1/2tsp Turmeric : 1/4tsp(optional) Besan Powder: 3tsp Oil : 2tbsp

Preparation:
1. Take a bowl mix all Ingredients except oil. shrimp has some moisture so while mixing there is no need of water, if required then use little water. Keep a side this mix for 30 minutes.
2. Take a pan, keep on stove and pour oil, oil get heated,  take 6-8 shrimps(depending on the pan size you took more also) and fry in the oil.
3.Check the shrimp is cooked or not,it cooked then take it out and place on a tissue paper to remove excess oil. don't put the stove in high falme. Fry all the shrimps like this. Don't do over frying.
4.Place it in serving bowl and serve hot with Ranch or any hot sause.Other way you can serve this as side dish for Rice also.
note: If you over fried, then shrimp losses it's original softness, so check the shrimp is cooked then remove from the pan.
I am not deep frying, like this also you feel it as deep fried and it's soft and little crunchy.

Rava Dosa

ingredients:

Semolina/rava:2cups

Wheat flour:1/4 cup

Maida(all purpose flour):1/2 cup

Rice flour:1/2cup

Cumin seeds: 1tsp

Grated ginger:1tsp

Finely chopped green chillis: 2

few curry leaves

Few coriander leaves(optional)

Curd:1/2 cup

Water:6cup(depends on consistency of the flour) 

Salt to taste

Oil

Preparation:

          1.Mix all the ingredients except oil in a bowl, it becomes a rava dosa batter. keep aside this batter 1 to 11/2 hour to get crisp rava dosa.

          2.While preparing dosa's add more water it depends on pouring consistency, the batter should be thin not like normal dosa.

          3.Place the dosa tawa or dosa pan in the stove on high flame after dosa pan heated sprinkle little water on dosa pan and take ladle full of batter and pour from outward base of dosa pan like circle, fill the gaps in middle with dosa batter. Don't put the dosa batter as a thick lump on the pan just pour the batter evenly fill the gaps

         4.Pour 2tsp oil like drops in the edges of dosa and top of the dosa.

         5.Put the stove on medium allow it to cook for some time like 2mins and put on high for few seconds or it reaches golden brown color that time take the dosa.

Serve hot with chutney or sambar or ginger chutney

         For preparing rava dosa we need little bit pratice, pouing batter on the dosa pan. Don't skip oil it gives  more taste and helps to give crisp nature to rava dosa
if we want onions then add sliced oninons, chopped onions also.

         

Coconut kheer

ingredients:
 Raw coconut:2 cups 
 Milk:1/2liter
 Sugar:2cups 
 Rice:1/2cup
 Cashew:3tbsp 
 Ghee:5tsp
 Cardamom powder:1/2tsp

Preparation:
        1.  First we want to sock rice for 1/2 hour and grind with the raw coconut make as batter,use little water if needed while grinding, keep this aside.
        2.  Place thick bottom pan in stove and pour milk in the pan. boil the milk in medium flame stir well. once milk boiled fully then add coconut and rice batter allow it to cook it will take 7 minutes.
        3. stir continuously and keep the flame on medium.
        4.once coconut is cooked then add sugar and stir well. Otherwise bottom will burnt. cook this one for 5minutes, add cardamom power.

        5. Take another pan and pour 2tsp ghee fry cashews, add these cashews in payasam.
add remaining ghee in payasam and remove the pan from flame and serve hot or cold.